loki and his law practice - hr harper

The world is left in our hands.  Its muddy clutter, our clutter, drops on our doorway at dawn. 

There, the highways, 

early in the day, 

fill with the delivery trucks: 

Pantalla Inc. responding 

quickly to the human 

need for more, 

for anything 

that disrupts 

any thing the 

1,000 anxious eyes set. 

Boxes of cameras

are left on stoops

captured by cameras

and laws are not

the only thing broken.

Delivery isn’t freedom 

for our members. 

It kills. 

Loki’s business model, 

his scheme of felonious rebellion,

is to sell us on this practice: 

Smash every screen.   

Do not 

simply turn them off, 

unplug, nor employ 

the temporary discipline 

of your virtual selves,  

reducing use 

in the brainspace’s  

“appropriate use” naming.  

Smash: VERB 

violently break (some thing) 

into pieces. 

Then wash the threshold. 

Fix the eye on the sun;  

it rises one more time. 

Loki plans to teach 

that in such pieces 

we can become whole again. 

So practice freedom 

from suffering.  

Ungraspable smashing. 

Smash the open sky too 

before it fills with riddles.   

We are so close to losing it all.

The lights in the rearview mirror

are not cops.  They are 

an ambulance.

How’s that for a broken punch line?

HR Harper is a writer living in the redwoods above Santa Cruz, California. A student of meditation and kenotic traditions, he writes to understand the nature of human consciousness in a natural world humans seem to be ignoring and destroying. He began to publish in 2021. Several of his recently published poems and stories may be found at: https://brusheswiththedarklaw.blogspot.com